Chapter 51: The Tunnel

The sun rises in the east, and the golden morning light sprinkles on the window paper, illuminating the pen, ink, paper, inkstone and turtle knick-knacks on the desk.

The fluffy white bird, lying on the snack plate on the table, tilted his head in a rather awkward position, slept like a piglet.

Night Terror Hall was wearing clothes in front of the bronze mirror, and he could faintly hear the small words of a good wife and mother disciplining her daughter from the main house next door:

"Don't hurry up, the sun is drying your ass......"

"Master, where is my belly pocket......"

"Shhhh Shameless...... Your cousin is next door......"

"Hee~"

……

Although it's not really a family of three, it still feels very happy.

However, when he thought of this happiness, it should have belonged to the Pingtian Sect Master, and Night Terror Hall felt a little more pressure in his heart.

I came back the night before yesterday, because there were a lot of things yesterday, so I didn't go to visit Sanniang, who was still injured.

After the night terror hall was dressed neatly, he said goodbye to Luo Nuxia, led the horse and walked away from the yard, wanting to go to Tianshui Bridge to see it first, and then go to check on the affairs of King Wu's son.

But as soon as he carried the bird out of the dyeing street, he found a fast horse galloping towards him, and immediately sat on the black ya's catcher, and shouted from afar:

"Nightboy."

The Night Terror Hall drove up to him and asked:

"But King Jing is looking for me?"

Hei Ya quickly bowed his hand: "Just now, King Jing summoned him and asked Ye Gongzi to go to Fushou Palace immediately, and he didn't explain anything." ”

Night Terror Hall was a little puzzled, but when he was summoned stupidly, he couldn't push it, so he could only let Bird Bird go to Pei's house to help him report his safety, and he flew to the imperial city.

Because it was not the first time to enter the palace, it was also known as a familiar way, so the Night Terror Hall parked the horse outside the imperial city, entered it with a sign, and walked through the verandah of the palace pavilion by himself, and came to the Fushou Palace, which is located near the imperial garden.

There were relatively few people in Fushou Palace, and Hongyu was waiting outside the palace gate, and when she saw the Night Terror Hall coming quickly, she hurriedly stepped forward:

"Night Boy, you're here."

Night Terror came to him, looked at it slightly, but saw that the palace maid's skirt was still stained with some mud, and asked:

"What's going on?"

Ruby walked towards the palace with the Night Terrors, explaining along the way:

"Yesterday, when King Jing and the Queen Mother were taking a bath, they found a book, which wrote a lot of secrets in the palace, and the Queen Mother looked for it for half the night......"

When Night Terror Hall heard this, he guessed that Ben Ben must have discovered "The Secret History of Cleopatra", but looking at the situation, Clumsy was not angry, and he couldn't talk about being weak-hearted, so he followed Hongyu left and right, and came to the dormitory of Fushou Palace.

Outside the dormitory, which was originally clean and tidy, there was a pile of dirt and rubble. In a room in the side hall, there were several palace maids standing, digging with hoes and shoveling soil, and a large pit had been dug in the ground.

The tall Oriental Liren, standing under the eaves of the palace pavilion, holding a book in his hand, was engrossed in his research.

The queen mother, who is round and jade, is wearing home clothes, looking at the big pit in the house, looking interested.

After looking at it a few times, Night Terror came to it and bowed: "Your Highness? ”

Dongfang Liren quickly closed the book when he heard the sound, turned around, and raised his hand to signal:

"Night Terror, this is the book you used to learn how to investigate cases?"

Night Terror Hall nodded very frankly: "That's right, the buildings of the capital are written in great detail here, and Your Highness can see it when you think about it." ”

Dongfang Liren felt that the little things between men and women were written in more detail, but last night I accompanied the Queen Mother to find the relics of the old days, which was really interesting, so I didn't say anything, and turned my head to signal the room where the ground was started:

"A lot of things in the book are quite accurate, and it is also said that there is a tunnel below here, leading to the Shizifu of the previous dynasty, but the palace does not record this matter, do you think it is true or false?"

Night Terror Hall watched "The Secret History of Cleopatra" and knew that it was the tunnel used by the Queen Mother to have a secret affair, so she thought about it and said:

"The Shizi Mansion in the book is near Wende Bridge, and the amount of work excavated from here is too large, and I don't feel that the authenticity is high."

The Queen Mother turned around when she heard the conversation, and found that the night terror hall was coming, so she put on a dignified and majestic demeanor and walked slowly to the front:

"This palace doesn't think it's made up, and it was ...... in the phoenix pond yesterday"

"Queen Mother!"

Dongfang Liren was afraid that the Queen Mother would tell her about the 'mother and daughter posing' last night, so she hurriedly came to her and helped her like a filial daughter:

"It's dusty here, you go back to the palace to rest first, and when it is dug up, I will ask the Queen Mother to come over."

The Queen Mother naturally refused to leave: "The palace can suffocate people to death, and the palace is here to see, and it won't get in the way." If you want to talk to Night Terror, just say it, and the queen mother won't bother you. ”

Dongfang Liren was referred to by the Queen Mother's other words, and his eyes were a little strange, but it was not easy to explain, so he looked at the night terror:

"Tell you to come over and help, don't just watch."

Night Terror Hall laughed, didn't say much, came to the room or something, let a few poor palace maids retreat, jumped into the half-human deep pit, stepped on it with their feet, and then pulled out the dragon ring head knife, inserted it into the soil, and pressed the ring head with the palm of their hands.

Cha~~

The blade is like inserting into the sand, and it is not until it is about to sink into the handle of the knife that it suddenly stops.

Night Terror Hall felt it carefully: "There is a stone slab underneath, I guess there is really something." ”

As he spoke, he took the shovel and threw away the tamped soil in three or two strokes, revealing a bluestone slab.

The Queen Mother was very curious, and looked at the door:

"The tunnels down there?"

Night Terror Hall half-squatted down, tapped the stone slab with his hand, made a 'dong dong~~' sound, and nodded:

"The slate is about three inches thick, and the bottom is empty, so it should be a tunnel."

Dongfang left the house and frowned: "There is a secret passage in the palace, the matter is not small, open it and see if it is sealed below." ”

Seeing this, Night Terror threw the shovel in the house and waved his hand:

"Stand still."

Dongfang was slightly puzzled and withdrew from the door:

"What do you do?"

Night Terror felt that the slate was quite large, but it didn't have time to dig slowly, so it stood in the pit and breathed deeply, then raised its palm and slapped it on the slate.

Boom~

Click-

Lightning-fast cracks appeared in the stone slab beneath his feet.

The Queen Mother felt that the soles of her feet were numb, and hurriedly retreated, hiding behind Dongfang Liren.

Dongfang Liren's eyes widened and reminded:

"Beware of hurting your hand."

Night Terror Hall is afraid of hurting his hands, so he used a palm blow, and at the moment he lifted his breath again, and slapped it with three palms in a row:

Bang Bang~

Boom –

The last palm fell, and the slate was torn apart, crumbling down with the broken earth.

The Night Terror Hall jumped up quickly and landed steadily outside the door.

Whoa—

When the dust settled in the room, a large hole five feet square appeared in the middle of the room, and through the light from outside, the stone wall below could be seen.

Seeing this, the Queen Mother wanted to go in and take a look, but Dongfang was afraid that there would be a mechanism, so she stopped her.

Night Terror waited for a moment, and saw nothing unusual, before he came to the entrance of the cave with a knife, and looked inside, and it could be seen that this was the end of the tunnel, and on the other side was the staircase down, which was pitch black, and I didn't know where it led.

"It doesn't look like the tunnel is blocked, it's just the entrance sealed."

Night Terror said, taking out the fire fold from his waist, blowing it on, and throwing it into the depths of the tunnel.

Da Da Da ~~

After the fire fold rolled down the stairs, it rolled into the depths, and until it stopped, the fire was still lit:

"It looks like there are ventilation holes, and you shouldn't be suffocated if you go in."

Dongfang Liren was slightly surprised when he heard this, and came to him to take a look:

"Have you ever been to the grave?"

"Huh?"

Night Terror Hall looked up, inexplicably.

Dongfang Liren explained: "I caught a few Tufuzi in the yamen, and it was the habit of Tufuzi to throw fire into the tunnel. ”

Night Terror shook its head slightly, looked at the tunnel that had probably not been opened for two hundred years, and asked:

"Do you just seal it, or go in and have a look?"

Dongfang Liren must seal the tunnel, otherwise the Queen Mother had a whim that day, and it would be troublesome to sneak out from here to play.

But before the seal, she still wanted to see where this tunnel could lead, so she spoke:

"Take this king down and see."

Night Terror Hall carefully examined the underground structure, and could determine that it was just a simple underground passage, and it fell into it.

Dongfang Liren asked the palace maid to bring two palace lanterns, and jumped in as well.

When the Queen Mother saw this scene, she was a little unhappy, came to the entrance of the cave, bowed her head and said:

"You're going to throw this palace here?"

Dongfang Liren knew that the Queen Mother was idle and bored, and her curiosity was very heavy, so she checked the tunnel left and right, and found nothing unusual, so she flew up, hugged the Queen Mother's waist, and fell into the tunnel.

Seeing this, Hongyu also wanted to jump down, but the Queen Mother said solemnly:

"You stay honest, if the tunnel collapses, quickly call someone to dig the palace."

"Oh." Ruby shrank back in a huff.

For the sake of safety, the Night Terror Hall did not let the two follow, and raised his hand to signal:

"I'll go ahead and explore the way, make sure it's okay, Your Highness and Niangniang will follow up, and if there is a situation, you will withdraw, don't worry about me."

Dongfang Liren handed the palace lamp to the Night Terror Hall, and then carried the lamp to protect the Queen Mother, keeping a distance and following behind......

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The cold comes and goes, and people are confused (>_<)

(End of chapter)